Maybe that's another trope that Mouse World is a subtrope of. One of the defining characteristics of the Mouse World is the scale, from my understanding. Though I think in cases like the movies you listed it's definitely got a lot of the same aspects of a Mouse World aside from scale and bamboo technology. Not to mention that yes, especially in movies like An American Tail cats and dogs are often very much a part of their world, though they tend to follow the Cats Are Mean trope. Any other opinions on this?
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Another possibility is that we're dealing with a setting counterpart to the sliding scale of anthropomorphism: you've got worlds where humans and animals coexist side by side as part of a single, integrated society (though animals tend to be outcasts, as in TMNT and Cats Don't Dance) you have worlds where the animals exist in a parallel society, with varying degrees of interaction with humans (ranging from the OP's examples where animals have "pet humans" to the various Mouse World examples where the main characters exist on the fringes of human society); you have worlds where the animals exist on their own, where humans exist as rare, mysterious interlopers (Bambi, Jungle Book, Tarzan) if they appear at all (the Lion King, the Land Before Time). The common feature of most of these is that the animals at least show the pretense of being animals rather than funny-looking humans.
What would you call the similar situation depicted in such Disney films as 101 Dalmations, Aristocats, Lady and the Tramp, and Oliver & Co? Here you have a society of dogs and cats that live alongside human society; it differs from a Mouse World in that there's rarely any Bamboo Technology, and the dogs and cats interact with humans regularly. It's similar in that humans are mostly unaware of the animal society. In fact, any time you have dogs or cats showing up in a Mouse World, they're (almost?) always members of this sort of society, and vice versa; so maybe we're dealing with an expansion of the Mouse World trope rather than a variation of it?
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